Manifold Press currently have a special offer available. For a limited time only, you can buy The Complete Albert J. Sterne box set. This includes the original novel, and the eleven stories published separately, together in one ebook for a discounted price.

Please note that this offer will not be made available via other ebook retailers. Please also note that the box set does not recombine the novel and stories, but keeps them separate, as they were originally published.

Hurrah! The paperback editions of my first four novels (with the two Alberts incorporated into one) have gone live!

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The three winners for each title were duly picked by Goodreads, and I have put the orders in with CreateSpace. The expected delivery dates are all around mid October. I hope you nine wonderful people enjoy your prizes!

If any of the rest of you would like to purchase a copy for yourself, you can find the titles on the CreateSpace eStore at the following links:

My first four titles will soon be available in paperback format in addition to the current e-books. Hurrah! At present I am on track for a publication date of 1 October 2012. (I am hoping that Butterfly Hunter will follow on 1 December 2012.)

During the lead-up to the publication date, I am making three copies of each available as giveaways on the where can i buy neurontin online website. You can find them via the following links:

The Definitive Albert J. Sterne:buy neurontin with paypal. This paperback edition re-combines the novel with the stories published separately as Albert J. Sterne: Future Bright, Past Imperfect, in line with my original intentions.

You will need to be a Goodreads member to enter, but there are no other requirements – and being a Goodreads member is a lot of fun! I hope you’ll all go and click that Enter to win button!

(For those of you curious as to how this is working, I am running with the publication of these paperback editions as an individual author, under license from where to buy neurontin, who have been nothing but generous and supportive throughout the whole rigmarole.)

Conclusion: This collection of stories was certainly more emotional than the novel, since it revolves more around characters’ lives than the plot about a serial killer. It has been a while since I’ve enjoyed a writer’s style so much, unobtrusive and yet clearly capable of conveying Albert’s losses, Garrett’s hatred, Fletcher’s love. The stories added the facets of their private lives successfully deepening our overall understanding of their characters. If you read The Definitive Albert J. Sterne, this collection is a must read. If you didn’t, I wholeheartedly recommend both books to you. Both the novel and the stories are great addition to this genre and the complexity of the characters alone recommend them to anyone who enjoys reading.

Aussie54 gave it 5 stars, and said: Reading about Fletcher and his family was a joy. … It was hard to put my eReader down! I couldn’t wait to see what happened with Fletcher and Albert (even re-reading the first Albert along with this second book was compelling …).

Silver Iris gave it 5 stars, and said: I’m not sure I can describe just how much I love Albert & Ash. These short stories that are snippets into their lives beyond the novel were fantastic. I want to see more into their future.

An excerpt from the story The Rending of Cloth (New York City, October 1952). The child Albert grieves for his murdered parents.

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Albert’s early childhood was mostly vague impressions. The love between his parents, and their love for Albert, was strong and constant and inviolate. But none of them were ever very demonstrative, there were never any displays of sentiment. The love was simply there as the foundation of everything they did, all the choices they made, the way they kept company only with each other, the scrupulous care taken to ensure that Albert had everything he needed to grow into everything he could be.

There were hazy moments he could remember. Albert, curled up in his father’s lap, listening to Rebecca’s calm voice tell the story of an old friend, long dead; Miles as rapt as the boy. The three of them being polite at some obscure relative’s after­noon tea, then mischievously sharing their boredom with each other through grimaces and raised eye­brows behind the woman’s back – they had gone home and read all evening, happy in their shared silence. Both of his parents a little giddy, someone having talked them into a fine restaurant on their twelfth wedding anniversary, dressing in their usual dull clothes – but Miles had bought Rebecca a silk scarf. The dark green of it picked out the reddish tint to her brown hair, which she left loose for once. Her eyes had glowed.

Late that night, she clutched the scarf in her dead hand and wouldn’t let it go.

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The blurb: Three young boys on a collision course: Albert Sterne – isolated, driven and fiercely intellectual; Fletcher Ash – bright, dedicated and with a strong sense of justice; John Garrett – hurt, marginalised and determined to do to the world exactly what the world has done to him. The eleven short stories in this companion volume continue and expand on the lives of the characters from the same author’s outstandingly popular The Definitive Albert J Sterne, which should preferably be read first.

I hope that you’ll give Albert a try! I must reiterate what the publisher says in the blurb, however. This isn’t a sequel or a prequel in the traditional sense, and probably won’t mean much to anyone who hasn’t read the first novel.

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The panel said:

A very gripping thriller. At first I was a bit shocked that it has almost 700 pages but once I started reading I couldn’t stop. The part I enjoyed the most was the love story between the two main protagonists. All the characters have depth and are complex which made them very realistic. I found this book very fascinating and I will definitely read it again. –Verena

The book was a refreshing change from the usual “m/m-fare” and had a great mix of a real thriller and romance, although with a character like Albert I am not sure if romance is the right word… ;-) One problem I had was that I was missing some explanation for why Albert was the way he was. –Uli

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I am also so very proud that many of the other Manifold Press authors did exceedingly well. I am a firm believer in the Press’s goals and methods, and I think these excellent results are proof that they’re onto something good! (If I do say so myself…)

I am delighted to announce that the lovely people at where to buy neurontin have agreed to publish two new titles of mine.

If our current plans come to fruition, The Valley of the Shadow of Death will be published in November 2011 – though perhaps not under exactly that title, as it is felt to be a trifle long. This is a modern-day tale of a cop, Joshua Delaney, and a mobster, Angelo Trezini, set in Chicago. It once made a brief foray into print, courtesy of Homosapien Books, but hasn’t been available since.

And for anyone brave enough to cope with a little more of Albert, a volume of stories titled Future Bright, Past Imperfect will be available in February 2012. Those of you who already felt that The Definitive Albert J Sterne was plenty long enough will be either horrified or relieved to know that I drafted far more prose than actually ended up in the novel. This ‘companion’ title presents some of that material in eleven stories that (hopefully!) provide a little more insight into Albert, Fletch and Garrett.

I am unutterably proud that Manifold Press has such faith in my work! I hope those of you who give any of my novels a try will enjoy what you find.

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